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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE

July 9, 1997Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 1997, 8:29 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1997, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1997, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
27 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1078 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1078 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 100129
FFWGRI
KSC141-100430-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
829 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN OSBORNE COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM...HASTINGS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED OVER 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN
HAD FALLEN ACROSS SOUTHWEST PARTS OF OSBORNE COUNTY. SOME SECONDARY
ROADS ARE LIKELY COVERED BY WATER. A RAINFALL REPORT OF 1.5 INCHES OF
RAIN FELL IN AROUND 30 MINUTES JUST NORTHEAST OF NATOMA.
SMALL STREAMS WILL LIKELY FILL OR OVERFLOW WITH THESE HEAVY RAINS.
 
 
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A ROAD COVERED BY WATER.  THE ROAD
COULD BE WASHED OUT UNDER THE WATER SURFACE OR YOUR CAR COULD BE
SWEPT AWAY IF WATER IS FLOWING SWIFTLY.
 
 
BW/JG

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 9, 2:07 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:07 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
205 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997

...1ST PRBLM WILL BE TRWS TODAY INTO TONIGHT THEN FCST IS BASICALLY
   PERSISTENCE NEXT FEW DAYS...

INTERESTING WX PICTURE THIS AFTN WITH CONVECTIVELY INDUCE VORT MAX
LOCATED ON 1KM VIS NEAR LINCOLN/DAWSON COUNTY BORDER. OUR 1ST STORM
OF AFTN HAS JUST POPPED UP W/ THIS FEATURE AS OF 145 PM. MESO-SFC LO
ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THIS VORT SE NEAR HLC. A BOUNDARY EXTENDS EAST
FROM THIS LOW THRU NRN KS. FURTHER NORTH SYNOP SCALE FRONT STILL
DRAPED FROM WRN SD THRU THE SANDHILLS THE EAST THRU SC/SE NEB.

PRETTY JUICY LLVLS WITH WIDESPREAD 65/70 F DWPTS AT SFC AND 14 C
DWPTS AT H85 ON 12Z ANALYSIS. ABSOLUTELY NO MID LVL FLOW THOUGH
WITH 10KTS AT BEST.

IN GENERAL...NGM HAS DONE BETTER WITH CURRENT VORT MAX AND ANOTHER
LIFTING OVER TOP OF RIDGE INTO WRN KS. HOWEVER...IT APPEARS TOO STRONG
WITH VVS FROM IT THIS AFTN/EVENING IN SE CWA. PERHAPS A COMPROMISE
LEANING CLOSER TO NGM IS A BETTER WAY TO DEAL WITH IT. NGM ALSO
BETTER W/ SFC FEATURES AS SMC ON ADAP VERY MUCH SUPPORTING IT/S IDEAS.

WILL KEEP 50% POPS GOING TONIGHT GIVEN THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY
AND SEVERAL FEATURES TO SET STORMS OFF. IN FACT...CAP SHOULD BE GONE
BY 3-4 PM SO WOULD EXPECT DEVELOPMENT TO START TO BECOME MORE WIDE-
SPREAD BY LATER THIS AFTN. LOWS TONIGHT AGAIN IN MID 60S. WITH A
S OR SE WIND 5/15 MPH.

TOMR...SAME TYPE OF DAY. GENERAL FRONT STILL DRAPED THRU AREA IN
SOME FASHION OF ANOTHER. AMT OF TRWS WILL DEPEND ON WHAT/S SORT OF
BOUNDARYS OR VORTS LEFT OVER FROM 1ST PERIOD CONVECTION. WILL PLACE
IT 30% CHC BY LATE AFTN WITH IDEA THAT ANY EXTRA FOCUS LIKELY TO BE
FURTHER EAST ALONG FRONT. TEMPS IN THE UPPER 80S TO NEAR 90 STILL
SEEM REASONABLE...AND WILL DEPEND ON AMT OF CLOUDS LEFT OVER IN THE
AM. SE WIND 10/20.

TOMR NIGHT...WILL LEAVE 30% POPS IN WITH VVS INDICATED AT H85 NEAR
STALLED FRONT AS LL JET KICKS IN. LOWS 65/70 THRU AREA.

AND INTO FRI...AS NEXT SYS MOVES INTO ROCKY MTS...LEE TROF SHOULD
FOCUS MUCH OF ACTIVITY TO OUR WEST SO WILL LEAVE POPS OUT. GOOD
SOUTH WINDS...M SUNNY SKIES...AND PROGGED H85 TEMPS AGAIN SUPPORT
SOLID 90 DEGREE TEMPS THRUOUT AR6EA.

GRI BU 066/089/068/092 5331
HEB BU 067/090/068/092 5330
ODX BU 063/089/065/091 5331
LXN BU 064/091/065/092 5331
BLT BU 068/091/068/092 5230

GURNEY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
550 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0510 PM    IONIA                     KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97   JEWELL                         WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH

BW
Local storm report, Jul 9, 5:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
550 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0510 PM    IONIA                     KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97   JEWELL                         WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH

BW
Local storm report, Jul 9, 7:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
726 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0717 PM    6 MILES NE OF NATOMA      KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97   OSBORNE

PURDY
Local storm report, Jul 9, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
726 PM CDT WED JUL 9 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0717 PM    6 MILES NE OF NATOMA      KS   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/09/97   OSBORNE

PURDY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks30 min
Jul 9, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks27 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.